The Russians are coming! Twitter flips over Trump interview with Larry King on RT

Social media clutched its collective pearls after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump did a phone interview with Larry King that aired on RT America. It is, after all, more “proof” that the Russian government is meddling in the US election.

Most of the tweets were less concerned about the content of the interview ‒ during which Trump and King discussed topics as the Iraq War, relations with Hillary Clinton, baseball, and of course the Democratic accusations that Russian hackers are meddling in US elections ‒ but on the mere fact that it aired on a network funded by that same government.

For all the freaking out, though, it seems like most people got trolled by the whole Russian thing and missed the actual newsy parts of the interview ‒ like the awkward moment when Trump went silent after King asked him how he really feels about Mexican immigrants.

“Mr. Trump recorded a short interview with Larry King for his podcast as a favor to Mr. King. What Larry King does with the interview content is up to him. We have nothing to do with it," Trump’s press secretary Hope Hicks said in a statement.